Growth Metrics

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 18 consecutive years, with 0.21% as the latest value for Q1 2026.

  • For Q1 2026, Return on Capital Employed rose 29.0% year-over-year to 0.21%; the TTM value through Mar 2026 reached 0.21%, up 29.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.01%, 76.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 0.21% in Q1 2026 for Automatic Data Processing, down from 1.22% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 1.22% in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 2.91% in Q4 2024.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.41%, with a median of 0.35% recorded in 2023.
  • Year-over-year, Return on Capital Employed plummeted -229bps in 2024 and then surged 413bps in 2025.
  • Automatic Data Processing's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.03% in 2022, then tumbled by -1803bps to 0.63% in 2023, then plummeted by -365bps to 2.91% in 2024, then soared by 142bps to 1.22% in 2025, then plummeted by -117bps to 0.21% in 2026.
  • According to Business Quant data, Return on Capital Employed over the past three periods came in at 0.21%, 1.22%, and 0.27% for Q1 2026, Q4 2025, and Q3 2025 respectively.